Posts Tagged ‘Sales Strategies’
Insight Is Not the End—It’s the Beginning
Insight is the starting point. Our Insights should create a dialogue or conversation. It should begin a collaborative process, where we and the customer evaluate what it means for them. If our Insight doesn’t start a conversation, we have failed. If we can’t sustain the conversation, we have failed.
Read More Focused Sales Presentations
One of the basic tenets of sales you should keep in mind is that people don’t want what something is, they want what it does. As the famous example goes, nobody wants a quarter-inch drill; what they want is a quarter-inch hole. People want what your product or service does, not what it is.
Read More Shifting Our Perspective: Who Has the Problem We Solve?
The shift in perspective is small, but its impact on our results is profound. Stop looking for people to sell your products, services, and solutions to. Look for the people who have the problems you solve.
Read More Talking About Features, Advantages, and Benefits
So many people get caught up in talking, especially salespeople, about features. Someone comes into your store, or on the telephone, or across the desk, and you are so focused on what your product does that you don’t talk about the benefits they are going to get from it. So remember to talk about the features and the advantages of those features, and the benefits that your customer is going to receive.
Read More The Best Ecommerce Platforms for Startups
If you’re planning on launching a new business, having a good online store is essential. To make the best of your business, you need to be up-to-speed with the best of the latest ecommerce platforms, to help make using your website a seamless and user-friendly experience.
Read More How to Get to Yes
We all love to hear more yeses and Yes is the key to more sales in any direct sales business. Here is a simple system to boost your number of yeses so that you can increase sales and make more money from home.
Read More The Power of Just ONE More Unit
There is such leverage in high gross profit margins once a company is past break-even. Every dollar of gross profit falls to the bottom line, increasing net profit faster with each transaction. The point is that once a company is stable at or above the break-even point, one incremental unit generates robust increases in net profit.
Read More If the Customer Doesn’t Want to Buy, Discounts Won’t Help
It’s a major sales error to use pricing actions to break a stalled deal lose. Pricing actions are meaningless until the customer decides, “I want to buy.” Pricing actions are meaningless until pricing is the only issue keeping a customer from buying.
Read More Becoming a Government Contractor: Where to Start?
Once you realize that your business needs the world’s largest purchaser (U.S. government municipalities) as a customer, the next step is to determine how to become a government contractor. The following is a framework for how to initiate this process.
Read More Your Brand: What Does It Stand For?
Where does your brand stand right now? It’s a question not many businesses and individuals can answer with any degree of accuracy. Without any plan to analyze their brand in place, it’s not likely they will have an answer anytime soon.
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